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Diary entry for 1915-12-04
... : Mendelssohn's overture Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage; Strauss's Alpine Symphony, and Mozart's Symphony in E flat major. Weingartner's art of reproduction is perhaps a more calamitous fact than Strauss's composition; for Weingartner willfully destroys a life ...
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Diary entry for 1916-01-02
... . – Zu Lotharios Baron Lothario: one of the major characters in Wilhelm Meister. Gedanken über Frauen: Er selbst ist noch in halber reife, also immerhin unreif. Liebe ein a posteriori zu beurteilendes Lebenswerk; a priori blos Reflexe gegeben, wobei ...
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Diary entry for 1916-02-20
... . Under pressure, we stay for lunch and then go together to the Popular Concert. Popular Concert, under the rubric "Old Masters." Prof. Dittrich performs an organ prelude and fugue in C major, which Straube had on the whole performed splendidly a few years ...
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Diary entry for 1916-06-28
... it." – We do not get home until midnight. In the meantime, a package of candies arrived from Brünauer, with a request to borrow the G major score. ...
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Diary entry for 1916-07-27
... Treaty of Bucharest, according to which Austrian-Hungarian territories with a majority ethnic Romanian population would be ceded to Romania. Und wieder einmal zeigt sich, daß die Mittelmächte auch von Bratiano durch Doppelzüngigkeit im Stile Sassonows ...
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Diary entry for 1916-08-15
... contains the last two movements (Andante and Rondo) from Beethoven's Piano Sonata in D major, Op. 28, sometimes known as the "Pastoral" Sonata. ein Originalfingersatz von Beethoven zur sogenannten Pastoral-Sonate findet. Das deutsche Weißbuch legt dem ...
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Diary entry for 1916-08-16
... Entente and sided with them after being given assurances that Austro-Hungarian territories with a majority ethnic Romanian population would be ceded to Romania. Harnack’s Stellungnahme gegenüber den abscheulichen, in der deutschen Privatwirtschaft während ...
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Diary entry for 1916-08-25
... today plays a major part in the conduct of the war. One can only see what artifice those who wage war apply in order to instill fear in one another: one disperses lies, rumors, exaggerated statistics, and much else of the kind. Achan's theft; nonetheless ...
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Diary entry for 1916-12-17
... business people, it is a difficult act to find people who wish to be and to remain human beings as their principal occupation. In the synthesis of major and minor, only the geniuses move with consummate skill, just as in the synthesis of culture it is again ...
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Diary entry for 1917-02-07
... of the majority of its subjects in favor of a few hundred thousands of rich people. The state's crime consists in not even giving any space to the notion that the problem of hunger could be solved even in peacetime. Mrs. Pairamall pays the remaining ...